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(No MofeL) W. E. JBNNINGS.

HORSESHOE PAD.

No. 669,022. Patented 066. 6, 1896.

runzr Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM E. JENNINGS, OF BATI-I, ENGLAND.

HORSESHOE-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 569,022, dated October 6, 1896.

Application filed. February 24, 1896. Serial No. 580,490. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ETHELDRED JENNINGS, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Bath, in the county of.

Somerset,England,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pads or antislip-v view from below of a horseshoe with the im! proved pad fitted thereto. Fig. 2 is a section thereof on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

A is a metal frame made of cast metal, usually iron, and having two curved or crescent-shaped parallel chambers a a2, tapered so as to be wider on the upper side of the frame nearer to the hoofv than they are on the under side nearer to the ground.

The frame A is provided with the lugs a3 a4 a5, by means of which it may be secured to a iiexible plate B, usually of leather. b ZJ b are rivets for securing the frame A to the plate B. Previous to securing the frame to the plate the chambers ct a. are filled from above with firmly-compressed rope, cork, or similar material, but preferably tarred hemp rope. The plate B is of such size that it may extend from the heel of the shoe about three-fifths of the distance toward the toe of the shoe, and from the outer edge of one side 3 5 of the shoe to the outer edge of the other. It is secured with the shoe to the hoof by means of those of the shoe-nails that pass through the plate B, the latter lying between the hoof and the shoe.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination with a flexible plate B, of a cast-metal frame Ahaving tapered chambers a' a2 and lugs a3 a4 o5, rivets b, and coinpressed non-slipping material in chambers a a2, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a leather plate B, of a cast-metal frame A having tapered recesses a' cl2 and lugs a3 a4 a5, rivets b, and compressed rope in the chambers o ce2, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a horseshoe, of a leather plate B extending from the heels to about three-fifths of the distance toward the toe of the shoe and coinciding with its side edges with the exterior side edges of the shoe,a cast-metal frame A fitted within the rear part of the shoe having crescent-shaped chambers ct' a2 tapering from above downwardly, lugs CL3 a4 and a5, rivets b b b, and compressed nonslipping material held within said chambers d a2, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM E. JENNIN GS. IVitn esses:

H. J. HADDAN, A. J. HADDAN. 

